September 3rd, 2025
On today's Cyber Mornings Daily, we discuss Cloudflare's recent mitigation of a record-setting volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps), lasting about 35 seconds and primarily originating from Google Cloud. This incident highlights a significant increase in hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks, which rose from 700 in Q1 2025 to 6,500 in Q2 2025, often launched by botnets like RapperBot. We then cover a major privacy development as Disney agrees to pay $10 million to settle claims from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The claims…
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